Hiatus Picks the Week’s Best Bets
Matt Costa
The Casbah / Jan. 31 / 8:30 p.m. / $15
Orange County’s suburban fortress isn’t exactly what you’d imagine for a burgeoning singer-songwriter’s creative garden, but Matt Costa found a way to launch melodic musings off his beachside youth with second album “Unfamiliar Faces.” Costa unabashedly harkens back to old-school pop-rock sensibilities, with lilting piano and guitar chords, personal yet approachable lyrics and one hell of a knack at crafting a catchy refrain (just check out “Mr. Pitiful”). Delta Spirit opens the evening concert. (CM)
“Touch of Evil”
MCASD / Jan. 31 / 7 P.M. / $5
Your two impressions of Orson Welles are probably either that he was the groundbreaking filmmaker (“Citizen Kane”), or that he was a fat, drunk douche in commercials (see Youtube). What you probably don’t know is that he wasn’t just a one-hit wonder, proven with his 1958 noir gem “Touch of Evil.” Pre-NRA Charlton Heston is Mexican detective Ramon Vargas (oh, the sweet racial blindness of black-and-white film) who comes at odds with detective Harry Quinlan (Welles) over a murder in a seedy border town. Classic femme fatale Marlene Dietrich and legendary Janet Leigh add the woman’s touch to the psycho-sexual thriller, which features one of the most badass opening shots in the history of cinema. (CM)
This Week’s On-Campus Events
New Sounds From Oberlin
Jan. 31,
FREE
“30 Days of night”
Price Center Theater
Jan. 31, 6 & 9 p.m.
$3
Geisel Library
Feb. 1,
FREE
James burns
UCSD Bookstore
Feb. 1,
FREE
“Bliss”
Center Hall
Feb. 1,
FREE
Colin Armstrong
Espresso Roma
Feb. 4,
FREE
“Rendition”
Price Center Theater
Feb. 5, 6 & 9 p.m.
$3
Porter’s Pub
Feb. 5,
FREE
